Patrick Sounds Off: One Foot Out The Door

It’s easy to be discouraged by ballooning prices and diminishing ownership that plagues the game industry today, to the point that it feels as if the entire medium is being closed off to you. However, while the economics of the top end of the industry have become a garbage fire, other companies have been hard at work getting fourth- and fifth-gen gaming running conveniently on modern displays, and a replenished development pipeline is keeping these systems supplied with games. Let me open the conversation about why walking away from the gaming mainstream won’t leave you lacking for anything to play.